When I first started doing web videos I was using WWM2. It was fine if I kept it to straight cuts and titles. If I wanted to cross fade or do anything else that SOB crashed like a frat house after a party. There are probably some of my prior rants about it still in the archives.
I tried to get along with that sucker. I really did. But there came a point in frustration where I could stand it no longer. In hindsight, maybe it was too hard to design a movie making program that operated on Pentium or Celeron class machines. Yet Microsoft wasn't about to let one of the selling points of the Mac go unchallenged. The first effort on Windows ME royally sucked. Windows Movie Maker2 did make it easy to create basic videos. But if you had to really edit or get video from different parts of your video, Kaboom, down it went. I'm on Vista with a Dual-Core 32bit system now. I have used Windows Movie Maker for quickies, making titles or really short projects. It hasn't crashed or locked up yet. I have other software that I use as my main editing programs (Corel Video Studio X12 and Serif Movie Plus X3). I do hope they can make this work. But I ain't fooling with it until it is confirmed and certified that the bugs, cooties and ickys have been cleansed from the code. Gena http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> wrote: > > I never thought it would happen, but it seems Microsoft is actually updating > Movie Maker, the free video editor that comes with their OS. > Currently, Movie Maker is one shitty program and woe to anyone who tries > editing with it. > http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns/ > > > > > - You'd like more transitions, more effects, multiple soundtracks, and > > more video editing features like trim and split. As movie makers > > ourselves, > > we're in the same boat as you are. We want those fun "shatter" > > transitions > > and "warp" effects just as much as you do! We're definitely working on > > improving this and plan to have a range of rich-editing capabilities in > > the > > first official version. > > > > > > - > > - You'd like something resembling a timeline in the product. In the > > Movie Maker beta, the storyboard didn't have the ability to represent > > time > > like a traditional timeline would. We've heard you say that you'd like > > to > > be able to drag and drop clips to get them to start and end where you > > want, > > and that you'd like to have music and text that span multiple photos or > > video clips. We've also heard that you'd like to at a glance see > > which > > clips are longer than others, which clips have effects applied, and which > > clips have transitions. Now, I don't want to give too much away just yet > > (we still have work to do!), but we're definitely aware of these > > limitations. We've developed a new approach that we think will help > > address > > some of the shortcomings of the beta and will scale well from novice to > > experienced users without requiring people to switch views in order to > > get > > things done. > > > > > I love that, "You'd like something resembling a timeline in the product". I > dont mean to rip on Microsoft, but it's a little insane that it;s a big > revelation that a video editing program needs a good timeline as a > workspace. > > Anyway...glad they are updating. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
